Al-Qaṭāʾi (Arabic: القَطائِع) was the short-lived Tulunid capital of Egypt, founded by Ahmad ibn Tulun in the year 868 CE. Al-Qata'i was located immediately...

capital, al-Qata'i, slightly further north of al-'Askar. The capital remained there until 905, when the city was destroyed. After the destruction of al-Qatta'i...

new city founded just northeast of Fustat, called al-'Askar, and then again to another city, al-Qata'i, built by the semi-independent governor Ahmad Ibn...

congregational mosque was intended to be the focal point of Ibn Tulun's capital, al-Qata'i, which served as the center of administration for the Tulunid dynasty...

also established the Tulunid army. The capital was moved from Fustat to al-Qata'i, where the celebrated mosque of Ibn Tulun was constructed. The rise and...

regime, he built a new capital, al-Qata'i, north of the old capital Fustat. After 875/6 he entered into open conflict with al-Muwaffaq, who tried unsuccessfully...

Cairo and to irrigate the area to the north of the city. Al-Askar and al-Qata'i, two administrative capitals founded north of Fustat in the 8th and 9th...

officially known as the al-Asakir al-Masria (العساكر المصرية, Ⲛⲉⲛⲁⲗⲁⲥⲱϯ ⲛ̀ⲣⲉⲙⲛⲕⲏⲙⲓ, lit. 'The Egyptian soldiers') or al-Askar al-Masri (العسكر المصري, lit...

administrative capital in 870, called al-Qata'i, just northwest of al-Askar. It included a new grand palace (still called Dar al-'Imara), a hippodrome or military...

Sulayman al-Katib, who entered Fustat in January 905. With the exception of the Great Mosque of Ibn Tulun, the victorious Abbasid troops pillaged al-Qata'i and...